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A Cat Among the Pigeons

Television (Full Length) – 1992

If you people don’t come up with the money, and before the end of the month, we might as well call it quits as far as I’m concerned.
– Shona Rapira Davies, during negotiations with Wellington City Council
[If] in the act of seeing something, seeing an artwork, you are moved, from here to there — [if you] take a leap in your own imagination, in your own self — then I’ve done my job.
– Shona Rapira Davies
The Audit Office fielded complaints from ratepayers who mistakenly believed that their rates were being squandered. Its subsequent report, which put the final cost of the redevelopment at $825, 759, expressed concern about the way the project was managed.
– Redmer Yska on the development of Te Aro Park, in his 2006 book Wellington - Biography of a City